By Angela Youngman Jun 15, 2009, 14:53 GMT
How much do you really know about your food and the impact it has on the environment? The ocean's fish stocks are in decline with blue fin tuna almost fished to extinction.
Nearly one fifth of all greenhouse gases are due to livestock production. In the developed world, each of us throws away our average bodyweight of food each year - the annual cost of which, £10 billion, adds up to more than is spent on international aid annually. Tesco makes more profit in less than five minutes than the majority of UK farms in a year.
Topics include farmers markets, fair trade, health scares, supermarkets, key ingredients from fruit to chocolate; the GM debate, grow your own and global warming. It is a comprehensive study of the modern food industry, highlighting that not all food is as healthy as it looks.
This book makes fascinating reading, and is an eye opening study of the food industry. It makes you think about the whole concept of food and whether the world has gone mad in what it is doing. The best of it is that this book helps you work out how you can control what you eat while minimizing your impact on the environment.
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